C. D. Wright
leaves this intimate message in
Here
that sad body lies with its
rubymeated vestibule receiving the breeze.
And we further advise that you kick off your shoes and prepare to meet
with a lot of furry individuals because
—it's
February, we've been
late in coming (as sometimes we're wont to do in bed), but have no
doubt about it: there's the rustle of eros in the air!
In
this supplement, twenty-two poets penetrate and explore the
world of erotic
—its
sensual beginnings and fluid endings, its
low-pitched growls, mid-thigh caresses and upper hand jobs. They
observed peeping toms behind blinds. They started sleazy dialogues in
bars. They got their feet wet. They drew bags of testicles under door
knobs. They gathered impressions on car seat covers. They squatted
naked over steamed rice. They sneaked inside triple-mirrored dressing
rooms. They took home lovemarks on their neck. In short, all had a
field day with their submissions.
On a philosophical
note: are sexual innuendos, like
beauty, in the eye of the beholder? Or are they in the everywhere
weaving through your day, waiting for you to notice the double meaning
behind every word? In his eye-opening essay,
J.T. Best gives
a line- by-line interpretation of
After Apple Picking as
a chauvinist lust poem. You will never look at
Robert Frost's
innocent tuft of white hair the same way again.
whose
erotic works are featured in this issue.